Best Botany/Plant Biology Master’s Degree Colleges in the Southwest Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Southwest Region that made our Best Botany/Plant Biology Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Botany/Plant Biology School for Your Master's Degree

The botany master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality botany program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on botany/plant biology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other botany/plant biology students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt botany/plant biology students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized botany/plant biology related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for botany/plant biology students working on their master's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Southwest Region

As a result of absent data, we could not provide you with the botany/plant biology quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Southwest Region that both offer botany/plant biology and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

As an alternative, take a look at at some of our other Botany/Plant Biology rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Botany/Plant Biology ranking.

Best Botany/Plant Biology Colleges by State

Explore the best botany/plant biology colleges for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	235	3
Arizona	180	2
Oklahoma	153	3
New Mexico	114	3

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Botany/Plant Biology Related Rankings by Major

One of 14 majors within the Biological & Biomedical Sciences area of study, Botany/Plant Biology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Botany Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Plant Pathology/Phytopathology	8
Botany	4
Plant Physiology	1

Majors Similar to Botany

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Biology	1,084
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	329
Neurobiology & Neurosciences	144
Biotechnology	123
Physiology & Pathology Sciences	114
Biomathematics & Bioinformatics	100
Biological & Biomedical Sciences (Other)	71
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	64
Cell Biology & Anatomical Sciences	56
Microbiological Sciences & Immunology	40

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.